Instructional Design Process for a Course on Time Management for Head Nurses and Supervisors at a Veterans Administration Medical Center.

Geering, Adrian D.

This paper develops an instructional design process for teaching a time management course to head nurses and supervisors. (The course was conducted at the Veterans' Administration Medical Center, Lincoln, Nebraska, and was based on "A New Instructional Design Development Process for Instructors of Adults," by Mary Jane Even.) The paper covers course organization, course planning, instructional planning, analysis of the instructional plan, and evaluation of the course. Consideration of seven essential components is built into its design: the instructor, the adult learner, the teaching-learning process, the subject matter content, the group characteristics, the climate (environmental setting), and the internal and external influence on the group. The paper contains a bibliography, needs assessment survey, content need assessment, course workbook, conference evaluation form, evaluation of objectives, personnel job descriptions, and a proposal for management development to be submitted to the Cooperative Health Manpower Education Program (CHMEP). (KC)